My sister taught me how to put up a slideshow to share photos of my dragon paintings -
http://www.slideshare.net/jimhathaway/nakanosawa-museum
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Nakanosawa Museum, Gunma, Japan
I was setting up my exhibition last weekend in Gunma. It was a contrast to my Japanese nagaya studio.
To supplement the Yamanote paintings I have been working on some larger dragon paintings, but my studio is a Japanese rokujo - 6 mat room. And the longest I could stretch out my work for paintings was about 2 meters.
But the longer dragons were 11 meters x 2.2 meters, so it was quite a struggle to keep them in proportion, and I was not able to see the full paintings until they were on the wall in the museum. I had measured the museum by walking, 26 steps, and measured the height by my own 182 cm. standing by the wall. I was in a bit of a panic when the dragons went on the wall, wondering if they would fit.
There were some tense moments. But in the end they fit.
I got to do some ladder work too, setting up a Gunma andon.
To supplement the Yamanote paintings I have been working on some larger dragon paintings, but my studio is a Japanese rokujo - 6 mat room. And the longest I could stretch out my work for paintings was about 2 meters.
But the longer dragons were 11 meters x 2.2 meters, so it was quite a struggle to keep them in proportion, and I was not able to see the full paintings until they were on the wall in the museum. I had measured the museum by walking, 26 steps, and measured the height by my own 182 cm. standing by the wall. I was in a bit of a panic when the dragons went on the wall, wondering if they would fit.
There were some tense moments. But in the end they fit.
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